Author: The Beetle
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Yahoo! And AOL Travel Searches
Travel industry researchers estimate that demand for independently booked travel is set to rise by 80% in the next five years. Both Yahoo! and AOL recently announced that they were…
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Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha
Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and print a…
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Mutual Aid
Carole from San Diego would like some help planning a trip to new Zealand. I am travelling to the south island of New Zealand in March and would love some…
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Wilderness First Aid courses 2005
Wilderness First Aid is different from the Red Cross or urban first aid. Focus is on initial and prolonged care for a patient in the back country. Participants will receive…
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Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled?
Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled? Congo – Brazzaville Madagascar – Antananarivo Oman – Muscat Azerbaijan – Baku Bangladesh – Dhaka 0 out of 5 – you need…
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CD-rom ‘Kiribati, a personal report’ available now!
This attractive CD gives by means of 10 videos, 700 original photographs with explanations and 60 stories a colourful and varied picture of the country and people of the atoll-state…
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Funny signs
I was on the Lewis Pass in New Zealand and I saw a sign at a petrol station which stated, instead of petrol and diesel prices, ARM and LEG, gave…
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New Moon Handbook on the South Pacific
This 1091-page travel guide describes and maps Tahiti and French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, the Samoas, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Tuvalu, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu,…
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FAST Changi Check In
Singapore's Changi Airport has introduced immigration kiosks that read fingerprints and facial features and double as automated check-in counters, in a bid to cut flight check-in times. The project, known…
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Being Careful: Sri Lanka
This is what the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office say about travel to Sri Lanka: Information for families affected by the tsunami can be found at Sri Lanka: Information for…
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Pass the Sickbag
In December 2004 Virgin Atlantic introduced 20 limited edition sickbags designed by artists from around the globe on its first flight from Hong Kong to Sydney. The sickbags will be…
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Kashmir to Welcome Tourists
India has decided to open Srinagar airport in disputed Kashmir to international flights to entice more tourists to the Himalayan region. Kashmir has been involved in a 15 year dispute…
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On-Line Travel Scam
Be careful of a new online travel scam that involves bargain flights advertised on internet auction sites. The con-men advertise an amazing deal on an auction site, telling potential bidders…
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Driving in Spain
Paul writes in with another piece of advice about travelling in Spain. Another word of warning to novice travellers in Spain; be careful at the big hypermarkets as thieves operate…
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Dolphins Save Swimmers
A group of training lifeguards swimming off New Zealand were protected from a great white shark by dolphins. The lifeguards were training at a beach near Whangarei on the North…
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Budget Airline Resource
. This website is excellent: a guide to low-cost flying in Europe that includes every budget airline route, with maps and associated information. It also has a news feed of…
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Interesting Facts
1. The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 2. Americans and Icelanders go to the pictures on average 5 times a year, while Japanese go…
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So You Think You’re Well Travelled?
Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on capital cities. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! What is the capital city of the following countries: Bahrain…
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Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha
Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and print a…
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Travel Jokes
On landing, the Stewardess said, “Please be sure to take all of your belongings. If you're going to leave anything, please make sure it's something we'd like to have.”. There…